Dilbert is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams.

First published on April 16, 1989 Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.

Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees ' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work is praised.

The Republic of Elbonia is a fictional country in Dilbert.

" Xerox management had recognized what more gullible Dilbert readers did not: Dilbert is an offbeat sugary substance that helps the corporate medicine go down.

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

The scene then cuts away to a parody of Dilbert, after which Peter remarks, " Well, sometimes the business world is funny.

Its coining is explained in Dilbert Newsletter # 6.

The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

* The first corollary is that employees who are dedicated to their current jobs should not be promoted for their efforts ( as in The Dilbert Principle ), and instead should be rewarded with, say, a pay raise, while remaining in their current position.

Scott Raymond Adams ( born June 8, 1957 ) is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

A second reference was made on the TV series, S1E7 " Little people ", in which Dilbert uses a Jefferies tube to get to the conference room where free food is waiting.

Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, is an MBA graduate ( U. C.

The Dilberito is a vegan microwave burrito produced by Scott Adams Foods, Inc. and named after the comic strip character Dilbert.

In the Dilbert strip of February 5, 1995 Dogbert says that " leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow ".

Adams then expanded his study of the Dilbert principle in a satirical 1996 book of the same name, which is required or recommended reading at some management and business programs.

In the book, Adams writes that, in terms of effectiveness, use of the Dilbert principle is akin to a band of gorillas choosing an alpha-squirrel to lead them.

The Dilbert principle is comparable to the Peter Principle.

The Dilbert principle, by contrast, assumes that hierarchy just serves as a means for removing the incompetent to " higher " positions where they will be unable to cause damage to the workflow, assuming that the upper echelons of an organization have little relevance to its actual production, and that the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder.

Similar observations on incompetence can be found in the Dilbert cartoon series ( such as The Dilbert Principle ), the movie Office Space, and television shows the BBC's The Office or NBC's Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock.

The website Dilbert. com-Games has a mission statement generator that satirizes the wording often found in mission statements.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

In 1996 The Dilbert Principle was released, his first business book.

* Five Criteria for a successful business plan in biotech uses Dilbert comic strips to remind people of what not to do when researching and writing a business plan for a biotech start-up.

The setting is somewhat similar to Dilbert, but the style differs by concentrating more on actual nerd trivia and less on business stereotypes and zany interaction between characters.

* Dilbert: Escape From Cubeville was released in 2010 in the Dilbert store section of dilbert. com

' Downtime ' is a section of the magazine which included a 2 column Dilbert.

There are definite examples of humor restricted by copyright law on the internet ; examples include the Dilbert cartoons of Scott Adams or the newspaper columns of Dave Barry.

Adams sent in a sketch of Dilbert and Dildog, but realized he had to make " Dildog " more newspaper friendly ( any printing error that dropped the G would wreak havoc ) so he changed it to Dogbert.

Periodic attempts to win publication with Dilbert and non-Dilbert comic panels alike failed, including with The New Yorker and Playboy ( not necessarily with the same comics ).

Given Adams ' fame as the author of the Dilbert comics, publishers were wary of publishing any book by Adams without Dilbert content.

The original Dilbert comics were restored a second time when the site was relaunched in March 2005.

* Dilbert comics about death march

Scott Adams, the writer of the Dilbert comics, is also afflicted with focal dystonia of the hand, which impedes his artwork.

* Dilbert home page ( requires Adobe Flash, version without flash )

* HarperCollins ' official Dilbert Future page

I wrote The Dilbert Principle around the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they ’ re the ones you don ’ t want doing actual work.

As opposed to the Dilbert principle, the Peter principle assumes that people are promoted because they are competent, and that the tasks higher up in the hierarchy require skills or talents they do not possess.

The strips were never syndicated because Adams felt that this would make Dilbert too much of a " cartoonist cartoon.

* In the Dilbert comic strip, the boss's favorite color is puce, but he does not know that because he is mistakenly thinking of a primary color, as he does not know what puce is.